Random Snippets

Friday, September 12, 2014

I recently dropped my iPhone 5S and the screen broke. It was still usable, but it really bothered me.
So I went off to the Internet to find a local repair shop. While doing so I found that there are actually online stores that allow you to send in your phone and get it shipped back to you once it is repaired, without the hustle to actually go to a brick and mortar store.
Bonus is most of those send in phone repairs shops are cheaper than the local vendors. You can even get a free diagnosis from most of the shops first, before committing to anything.

After some more research I found a really helpful portal called PhoneRepairCompare.com. They have a overview for virtual all current phone models (iPhone and Android, e.g. Samsung, HTC, Nokia, LG etc.) with price comparison and history of price development of multiple online phone repair shops.

Additionally they have a free database of local repair shops, in case you rather go straight to a store.
My phone is working again and I know what to do next time around. Any repair shop is free to sign up for their store and location.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

I am involved in a cool project that just launched - FleamarkAd.com. FleamarkAd is a classified Ads platform that completely integrates with Facebook.
To signup and post ads you only need a Facebook account. Through your settings you have the option to share the Ad to only certain friends on Facebook, to a certain Facebook group or as well to everybody on the Internet.

Going through Facebook with your account and exposing certain offers only to certain people adds a certain trust to your products. On the other hand you know exactly who you are dealing with when selling or buying.
Right now until January 31st 2013 there is contest to win one of two iPhone 5 for people that join or like the app.
Additionally there is a cool feature that allows you to print your ads so that you can put them up on boards in your School etc.

With help of the component you can utilize the Amazon Web Service (AWS) to integrate Amazon product ads with your Joomla CMS 1.6 or 1.7.
The component comes with an easy to use backend part that allows you to integrate single products or product groups.

Fsr Amazon is a component which can be used with the content management system (cms) joomla. With the help of this component products of amazon platforms can be integrated into joomla pages via amazon web service (» aws) and amazons » product advertising API. Not only displaying products in index and item (detail) pages is implemented, but also amazons affiliate program can be used in Fsr Amazon component to earn money.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Problem

At one point when I've created a new Screen in my Blackberry JDE Eclipse project I received an error:

Eclipse I/O Error: Cannot run program "jar": CreateProcess error=2

I searched the Internet for solutions and several people stated that this happend for them after the exceeded a certain number of files in their project. After trying different things I found the below solution working for me.

The Solution

The easiest fix for this error is to copy the jar.exe from the Java JDK binary folder to JRE binary folder.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Introduction

I had to dig a while to find a Objective C CSV Parser I like and that has decent performance on a mobile device. One problem is that most of those parsers are originally written for Mac OS and they are not all easily transferable.

The cCSVParse from Michael Stapelberg is one of those lightweight CSV parsers. Since the website is entirely in German I will write a little summary and provide example for the English speakers on the Web.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Introduction

Recently I created a new project and at some point I uploaded it to SVN. I am not quite sure how to reproduce this situation but somehow the versioning support of Xcode 4 decided to interpret the project as a git repository.

Each time I tried to copy a file per drag and drop into my project I got following error: fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

The result was that the file got copied into the project folder, but the reference didn't get set in the project. I had to go into the folder and drag and drop the file again and uncheck the copy option this time, so that the reference gets set.

The Solution

1. Open Xcode and go to Window > Organizer
2. Find under repositories your project. It might be two entries if you use something like SVN.
3. Make sure it says "Type Git"
4. Mark the repository entry and hit backspace or delete (on mac)
5. Done